Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it.